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10-11-2008, 11:05 PM
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| Teenie Weenie Fish Join Date: Oct 2008
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|  Black smudges on my goldfish Alright, so I got a little goldfish, and kept him in a goldfish bowl for a month or so and he was fine, we fed him flakes but he didn't eat them and gave a betta fish pellet one day and he ate it so he was fed those... The other day I bought a "goldfish starter aquarium" and transferred him to that because the bowl broke (he wasn't in it at the time). He was fine the first day of so, and we started feeding him flakes again. Lately, he's had black smudged on hi head, and the tips of his fins but he acts like his normal, very active self. Is it some disease, or the food/aquarium? I've read about ammonia/pH burns, could it be that? |
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10-13-2008, 12:56 PM
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| Little Fish  Join Date: May 2008 Location: Memphis, TN
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|  Ammonia/PH burns are white/clear to my knowledge. A PH burn is very unlikely at that.... How big is the tank, for one, you really need a 10+ gal for a goldfish. Yeah I know... sounds big... But that fish is gonna get HUGE. They don't tell you that. Does it actualy look like... it HURTS the fish? Not like the fish is showing pain... but like does it look like it's a wound? It could possibly be markings just showing up? I'm not sure...
__________________ ~20 Gal~ 2 Convicts - Bonnie (F) Clyde (M) ~30 Gal~ (long) 1 BN Pleco - Davey Jones (?) 2 Otto - Zim (?) 2 Angel Fish - Nacht (F) Tag (M) 3 'Dwarf Weather Loaches' [Suspected to be Khuli loaches.] - Bandit (?), Vandal (?), Theif (?) 1 Crowntail Betta - Eve (F) ~Others~ 1 Cat - Kit Cat (F) |
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10-18-2008, 08:02 PM
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| Little Fish  Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: New York
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| I had this on one of my goldfish too...seemed to be nothing...that was well over a year ago...it used to be an orange goldfish, then all of a sudden it had some black streaks...but he's still alive...and still has the black streaks...so I'm gonna say don't worry! 
__________________ AlyKat 1½G bowl - 1 betta - "P IV" 5G - empty...hmmm... 10G - empty...hmmmm... 20G - 6 guppies, 1 hillstream loach, 1 oto...plants for hiding 30G - cycling... 55G - 2 plecos, 3 clown loaches, 3 gold barbs, 2 zebra danios, 1 giant danio, 5 pristella tetras, 4 brilliant rasbora 55G - Oscar and Jack Dempsey, 2 plecos  RIP "Lobster" |
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10-23-2008, 02:43 PM
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| Medium Fish  Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: Philadelphia, PA
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Gold fish are slobs, they eat a ton and produce lots of waste. They also get rather big... I sense another tank upgrade in the future! Or a hurt fish 
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10-26-2008, 05:28 PM
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| Little Fish Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: New York
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__________________ AlyKat 1½G bowl - 1 betta - "P IV" 5G - empty...hmmm... 10G - empty...hmmmm... 20G - 6 guppies, 1 hillstream loach, 1 oto...plants for hiding 30G - cycling... 55G - 2 plecos, 3 clown loaches, 3 gold barbs, 2 zebra danios, 1 giant danio, 5 pristella tetras, 4 brilliant rasbora 55G - Oscar and Jack Dempsey, 2 plecos RIP "Lobster" | |
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